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- From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
- Subject: 50 Years Ago: Tuesday, 10 November, 1942
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:40:15 GMT
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- From military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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- Tuesday, 10 November, 1942
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- The Australian 25th Brigade captures Gorari, New Guinea, trapping a
- Japanese force (including General Horii) at Oivi.
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- American troops capture Oran and reach Casablanca. Admiral Darlan
- broadcasts to French troops in North Africa, ordering them to cease
- fighting. Darlan also urges the French fleet at Toulon to join the Allies.
- Hitler, Ciano, and Laval meet to discuss the situation in Africa.
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- U-boats sink a British destroyer and a small transport in the
- Mediterranean.
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- Churchill speaks at London's Mansion House, praising Montgomery's victory
- at El Alamein. The Eighth Army meanwhile captures Halfaya Pass.
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- Appeals are presented on behalf of three Swiss soldiers sentenced to death
- for revealing information about Swiss alpine defense to foreign agents.
- The Swiss Joint Federal Assembly rejects the appeals.
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- Haiti and Nicaragua cut diplomatic ties with Vichy France.
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- "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is,
- perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill
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